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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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Accomplishment Best Distance Night Rain
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Foolish Outrage Useless War
It is the gods’ custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
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God Greatness Lows
In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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Death Father Peace War
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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Chance Circumstances Men Philosophy
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
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Inspirational Learning Men Philosophy Trying
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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Effort Evil Philosophy War
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.
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Himself Men Politics Rule
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
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Fortune Hate Human Men Wisdom
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
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Ears Eye Trust
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.
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Born Country Hero Law Men Nature
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.
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Divine God Impossible Men People
It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.
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Country Egypt World
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Believe Bound Cases Myself
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

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